How do you deal with unsupportive friends??

Well if they are unsupportive, I think they are not friends to consider. Friends should always be there for us in good times or bad times. Will be there to listen, understand and wont hesitate to scold you when you are wrong to correct it for the better. Indeed friends are easy to have but true friends are hard to find.

Hi, If friend is a real friend then he must be supportive and if he is unable to support you for some reason he should tell frankly the reason behind it. True friend is always with you in your happy and sad times. If a friend is not supportive I would behave him just like a normal friend but I always remember that he is not our real friend.

if someone was over all unsupportive they wouldn't be my friends, some don't have the compassion I need at times but will at other times, so it is just hard to say. I look at the overall picture, if they are still good friends, yet can't understand one issue or so, then they remain my friends. I cannot say it makes me happy to know the don't support me in a certain issue but heck they are not a carbon copy of me.

Actually whenever someone is in trouble he or she act like this so i think we should ask him for his or her problem and try to solve their problem because if we do not so it then we also become unsupportive for them

Like you, I would also like to know how they feel and what they think about whatever it is that I am doing. If I feel like they don't want to support me in any way, I expect them to have a good reason for it. They should be able to tell me their concerns and issues about me, if they are truly my friends. And I would appreciate anything that they can suggest, or anything which they think will benefit me. I am open-minded and I don't take offense too easily, especially if I know that the person is genuinely concerned about me.

Friends are meant to be have understanding in their relationship. You are right that friend should respect and support each other. But only in some prospect. If my friend is doing wrong thing, i will never support him. I don't care what he will think. Even if necessary i will break the relationship.

Real friends are honest and open with you, even if they do not agree with you 100%. I respect my friend's opinions and I think that they respect mine as well. I like the way you have expressed this situation.

hi bjc a few years back I w as forced to resign from the library due to the second in comm and not liking my age.well all the s aff pledged to me to keep in touch.,yah right okay its been five years and nobody ever bothered to phone me or email me or nothing out of sight out of mind my son said.but my best friend Nelda does support me and emails me each working day.we have been friends for at least 20 odd years.I worked with that staff for 23 years of course they were all married and I was widowed but still who am I c hopped liver? okay rant over.

hi bjc the few friends I have have always been s upportive of me. as for my best friend if she disagrees with me she tells me and we talk it over and we both understand we still love and like each other.we have an open relationship and she even gets on my case if I am putting off going to myh doctor or getting blood work done.andI appreciate her caring so muc h.we do respect and support each other always.

If a 'friend' is not supportive and respectful then I don't think this person is really my friend. When I was younger I had afew acquaintances that weren't supportive or even respectuful. They were short lived and I didn't hang out with them much. Now days I have several freinds and I believe in quality not quantity.

I think that if you are truly friends with somebody then you would always want to support them through whatever was happening at the time. I think that you can have a good time with somebody without having to be supportive of them, and that is what makes the difference between a friend and a best friend. The only thing that you could do would be talk to them and ask them why they're not giving you any support, as it isn't fair if you're having to be the one who gives the support all of the time.

Honestly to tell the truth I think nothing of unsupportive friends. What I mean by "I think nothing of them" does not mean to me that "it's not a big deal that my friends aren't supporting/ ignoring me", What I mean is that I am not going to worry about who isn't supporting me I'm going to continue doing what I'm doing no matter what, like you said when you you said you were younger and didn't care if anyone liked you or what you were about. Just to add to it those who say are your so called "friends' aren't really your friends I would say. Just don't worry about them and keep doing what your doing, maybe they will start being supportive friends one day.